You can always browse to the unc path through run.
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KyleMay 13 '11 at 11:45

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@wullxz: cheers, I didn't know you could browse UNC paths with PowerShell. @kyle: That's actually a valid answer according to my question :) But I want to access it from a command line environment. Will modify my question to make this more clear.
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Andreas GrechMay 13 '11 at 12:09

If your problem is that you need to work just from the command line, you can map the network drive with the 'net' command: net use x: \\computer name\share name
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Al CrowleyMay 13 '11 at 12:11

There is a registry value that you need to add, log out, log in again ... and now your cmd.exe does support UNC-Paths. It seems to me that you still can't cd to the path, but you can use it in other commands like dir, copy ...

I also hit the UNC problem with C:\> cd \\somewhere in a C program. Found this page and learnt about the net command: net use x: \\computer name\share name and used it successfully! Thanks to all who post their experiences for others to learn from. :-)

You can use the HttpFileServer application, it' over windows, very light and very easy to configure , it allow you to share a network folder UNC ( \server\share ) with HTTP protocol and the HTTP link can be used in any HTML page